• Einhornyordle@feddit.orgEnglish
    3 months

    I’m amazed that noone here is complaining about the fact that the offline installer for the product you paid for contains ads. Yes, offline ads that do not track you and only for other games on their plattform, but still ads. Not the worst thing in the world, I know, but still annoying.

  • deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    3 months

    Anyone ITT saying GOG is run by Nazis because some AI or intern or something used slavic symbols on an email newsletter better not use any of the following brands:

    Volkswagen, Porsche, BMW, Bayer, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, Ford, General Motors, Chanel, Fanta, Shein, Temu, Zara, H&M, Nike, Adidas, Puma, Gucci, Prada, Dior, Armani, Versace, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Louis Vuitton, L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, McDonald’s, KFC, Tyson Foods.

    If you’ve ever bought any of these brands or even used one of their products once you’re also a Nazi, you exploit humans and animals and should be blacklisted from all jobs probably even killed or something idk.

    There’s probably more brands. Comment them as you see fit!

    /s

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Witcher 3 hard copies required activation to your GOG account before they could work. Hitman (2016) was 70% locked behind the worst DRM in human history, but they sold it on their store until they were pressured by customers not to.

    And Devotion still ain’t ‘preserved’ because the CCCP hivemind told them not to have it on their site, and they obeyed instantly.

    GOG can suck all the dicks with that self-righteous bullshit.

    • yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      Always confuses me how the one outlier thing always catches flack for not being PERFECT, like fuck, do you want DRM-free games or nah? What other legal sources are there???

    • omarfw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      So your examples for why they’re bad are something they did a decade ago and something they did because the alternative was losing their entire Chinese market.

      You’re scraping the barrel. GOG must be doing things right if this is all you can come up with.

  • onnekas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3 months

    Pull out disc with a game from 10 years ago

    Installs just fine and launches

    “Connecting to online services…”

    “Timeout: Retry? Quit?”

    Huh?

  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    This is the message we need to hear. The bread and butter. I get so tired of people nitpicking GOG and Mozilla over every relatively minor thing when they are some of the only people trying to hold back the deluge of bullshit.

    • deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      3 months

      Agreed. Someone complained Firefox moved to updates every few days or something.

      They had no clue Firefox updates like all the time.

      • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
        3 months

        Do they? Maybe for minor releases but I’m pretty sure Firefox is currently doing major releases every 4 weeks and starting from September they’re going to do it byweekly. Personally I don’t see what the big deal is but I can absolutely see someone on the fediverse being outraged by the idea of a more frequent release schedule.

  • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 months

    I absolutely adore GOG for being like this, and for consistently applying pressure to publishers and other marketplace vendors alike.

    I just also have A Steam Library with like 1200+ titles, and it’s measured in Terabytes. And butrot in my physical media will be non zero, in long enough timescale.

    I consider my continued patronage of buying games to be my subscription costs to the platform vendors. 🤣

  • Doug@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 months

    GOG trying to drum up positive pr after that Nazi symbol newsletter.

    • deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      3 months

      Didn’t they instantly flag that? It was for some slavic game thing and all of those symbols are rooted in cultures long gone that nazis appropriated.

      • Doug@piefed.socialEnglish
        3 months

        The symbol alone was OK, but they doubled it to read SS, and they didn’t send it to Germany; which means it was 100% intentional and not just a little oopsie.

        • deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          3 months

          That’s because the German team flagged it.

          I don’t think it’s a good look but to decry they’re nazis for an email showing runic alphabet and slavic symbols doesn’t exactly trigger me too hard. It really sounds like someone fucked up.

          People out there still buying Bayer products and they genuinely were part of the Holocaust, a huge part of it. Ford, Volkswagen, etc.

          • hzl@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3 months

            There’s a world where someone uses a kolovrat or a sigel without intending to relate them to the Nazis. There is not a world where they use both a kolovrat and two sigels in a row and don’t know what it means. Maybe someone at GOG didn’t catch on, but the devs knew what was up.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Sadly, based on market share, people seem to be picking Steam over GoG.

    They almost always pick what’s most convenient/familiar over what’s principled and better in the long term.

    • Leafimo@feddit.orgEnglish
      3 months

      Until gog finally gets a good first(!) party linux client buying games there is not really worth it yet.

        • doublah@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3 months

          Because the third party client based on reverse-engineering and undocumented APIs could break at any time.

    • alexquiniou@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 months

      I’m in the opposite team ! I always buy in gog store first then steam. But yeah, steam is here.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Same.

        So many games aren’t there, though. And Steams pricing policy means they can’t be cheaper on GoG, anyway, otherwise Valve would delist them.

  • WereHacker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3 months

    To preserve “pagan” games or are we talking about another GOG?

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      Yeah I’m still pretty concerned about that whole event but it seems like everyone has just forgotten about it.

      I could have forgiven the initial email as a rogue nazi intern but their official response being “we made sure not to send it to Germans and its on you all for seeing nazi symbols as nazi symbols” is pretty fucking problematic. Also before anyone defends them as just being pagan symbols, the ones they chose to use were both modern creations by nazi germany

      For anyone who’s not up to date: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/gog-apologizes-for-emailing-nazi-runes-to-its-followers/

      • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
        3 months

        I definitely agree that using those innocuous Unicode characters in the way they did was someone’s subtle attempt at evoking Nazi imagery, but the whole Germany part of this story is meaningless. Germany is known for having excessive language restrictions, to the point where every marketing department has their standard library of phrases and whatnot to not use in Germany. They are used to making substitutions for the German market to swap out genuinely innocuous phrases simply because they have a different connotation in Germany or whatever. As far as we can tell, that was just yet another piece of marketing material that went through some automated regex filter for German subscribers and no one thought twice about it after seeing that fact.

        • chortle_tortle@mander.xyzEnglish
          3 months

          From their reddit post in trying to cover up:

          … I also recognize that placing two such runes next to each other could create an unfortunate association with symbols used by the Nazi regime. This was noticed before distribution, and out of respect for local sensitivities, the material was not sent to the German community.

          They knew and actively chose to not send it to the country that criminalizes Nazi imagery. To me the Germany stuff is the most damning part.

  • napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.orgEnglish
    3 months

    Just a quick reminder that discs that you burn yourself at home do degrade pretty quickly, much faster than pressed discs. I personally have had burned discs that failed after approx. 6 years. It can happen even faster if you use low-quality discs. Even pressed discs can fail after 20 years if you are unlucky.

    Using 2 big HDDs (2 for redundancy) full of your installers might be safer in the long run and also easier to manage and backup.

    https://digital-archivist.com/how-long-do-dvds-last-and-cds

        • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
          3 months

          Sure, but what if there’s a fire!? My favorite game is Ocarina of Time. I don’t want to risk losing it, so I memorized the binary digits that comprise the code. Can’t be too careful!

          • Xey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3 months

            Hope you keep your brain safe. Even then illness can easily rob you of those memories.

            • ChexMax@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3 months

              Fully agree. This is why I’ve made multiple children. Then I train them on the binary digits the way other parents teach shapes, numbers, and the ABCs. Can’t be too careful, it’s best to have multiple backups

        • EastofEdson@lemmy.caEnglish
          3 months

          I laminate my punch cards for longevity. Wouldn’t want them breaking down.